Saturday, May 16, 2015

Erlend Elias Bragstad (32) has cancer – VG

Celebrity stylist tells openly about the disease and the fear of death in Saturday’s Good evening Norway.

The personal revelation comes in the episode sent Saturday evening at 21.40.

– There are testicular cancer, and I have been operated. I’ve been stricken by agony. It has struggled very me, says celebrity stylist to TV2.

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Bragstad says he thought it was embarrassing to tell the family about the disease, because there is still a taboo form of cancer.

– Now I want to talk openly about it, that other men should be screened, he said to the channel.

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Testicular cancer is the most common cancer among young men between 15 and 30 years writes Cancer Registry on its website.

This kind of cancer has increased in the western world for decades, without you knowing the background for this increase. Overall, the cancer is not frequent. The disease is usually discovered as a lump in one of the testicles.

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Although there is little knowledge about the cause of testicular cancer, there are some known risk factors: cryptorchidism (non-undescended testis) and hormonal conditions during fetal development may increase the risk, writes Cancer Registry.

Cancer shape today effective treatment, and a very high recovery rate. Statistics at the Cancer Registry show that testicular cancer has the highest 5-year relative survival rate in the period 2009 to 2013 of all cancers, with 97.2 percent.

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